Everywhere, at your doorstep and on your plate!
⁇ Saturday, 11 October 2025 ⁇ 12:30 pm ⁇ Central Station ⁇
As the next global climate negotiations are being prepared in Brazil, the EU is pushing ahead with the EU-Mercosur agreement with the South American states. This agreement is intended to expand trade flows, but the consequences of these trade relations are already massive: Deforestation, monocultures, factory farming, human rights violations. The winners of the expansion would be international agricultural groups – and German chemical giants such as Bayer and BASF, which sell their pesticides and GM products at the expense of people and the environment in South America. The losers would be farms, the climate, the environment, our food security - ultimately all of us - worldwide and also here on the ground.
Bremen and the surrounding area are the central scene: In Brake, the most important German soy import port, the large freighters transporting feed from South America dock. In order for them to pass through the Weser, the river has already been deepened – and further deepening is planned. But this intervention has dramatic consequences:
- Salting of soils It threatens people's lives as well as agriculture in the Wesermarsch.
- Flood protection is weakened, which is dangerous for Oldenburg, Bremen and the entire region.
- Valuable habitats are destroyed, As dependence on a destructive global trading system grows.
Brake thus symbolizes the destructive logic of global agricultural trade and local environmental destruction.
What we're taking to the streets for nationwide:
- Socially fair: The EU-Mercosur agreement would secure profits for corporations – from exporters in South America to Bayer and BASF in Germany. Farmers in the south and north are losing, while chemical and agricultural companies are making billions. We demand: Good, healthy and affordable food for all instead of cheap imports and unjust agricultural profits for few!
- Ecologically sensible and globally responsible: More soy, beef and sugar cane from overseas means deforestation, species extinction and greenhouse gases. With each hectare of monoculture, the use of chemical-synthetic plant protection products exported by German corporations is also increasing. Here, too, the deepening of the river destroys fertile soils and weakens flood protection. We need regional cycles instead of destructive trade flows.
- No exploitation of humans, animals and the environment: The agreement promotes industrial animal husbandry, poison cocktails made from pesticides and labour exploitation. We want an agriculture based on respect for people, animals and the environment.
- Ensuring access to land and seeds: EU-Mercosur strengthens agricultural companies that patent seeds and take land. We demand: free use of seeds, access to land and protection of farming structures worldwide.
- A genuine voice – a democratic food system: Our diet is decided behind closed doors. We demand a voice from below: Nutrition is a fundamental right, not a plaything of lobbying interests.
- Good working conditions: From the harvest helper in Lower Saxony to the agricultural worker in Brazil: Whoever produces our food deserves fair wages, social security and dignity.
- Protection of soil and biodiversity: Fertile soils, healthy rivers and biodiversity are our livelihoods. Weserver deepening, GMO monocultures and pesticide use endanger them acutely.
- Decolonial perspective: The agreement continues colonial patterns: Exports of raw materials for the North, dependencies and destruction in the South. We stand for food sovereignty: Local food for local supply – worldwide.
- No to mass production and agricultural companies: The future belongs to diversity, farming and regional markets – not global monopolies and chemical companies.
Bremen and Brake as symbols – our protest is nationwide
Whether in Bremen, Berlin or Bavaria: The consequences of the EU-Mercosur agreement and soybean imports affect all of us. The fight for a future worth living is visible on the ground in Brake – on the Weser, which is being sacrificed for huge freighters, and in South America, where rainforests are being cut down and valuable grasslands are burning for soy, making corporations like Bayer and BASF deserving of poisoning people and nature.
Come to the nationwide demo!
⁇ Saturday, 11 October 2025 ⁇ 12:30 pm ⁇ Central Station ⁇
Let's set a strong signal together: Against EU-Mercosur, against river deepening, against agricultural corporations. For climate justice, for food sovereignty, for farming, for a system that protects people, animals and the environment.
Our food is a human right – not a commodity.
For justice, diversity and a solidarity-based agricultural and food transition – here and everywhere!
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